I love the ending of AI too. I wish there were more movies like this.

Oh, I watched the pilot for "Mr. Robot," and it was so much better than I had expected. It stars the guy who played Snafu in "The Pacific."

One thing I disliked about "The Machine" is that there were a few "big" developments (deaths) that had no bite because the genre has built-in backsies and the audience would be aware of them. No effort was made to subvert these expectations or put some sort of twist on the "fixes." (I'm thinking of Human Caity's fate…

Ah, a fellow "Tyrant" watcher; there aren't many of us around. The premise and the potential kept me hooked, despite a lot of negatives (the actress who plays the wife is not great). I enjoy the way our rooting interests can change from one scene to the next, at least for me. Democratic reforms: yay! Barry claiming…

How does anyone survive 100 duels? I assume there was some gentlemanly custom of shooting into the air on purpose or something. But we know that some of the duels resulted in actual death, so…

He could, like, *act* as though he's one.

I'm so glad you enjoyed "The Machine"! Caity Lotz was really good as Ava. I bought her as a newborn intelligence—emotionally unguarded and subsequently hurt.

That tan jacket was working.

I was sure the first one was going to be Woody Allen.

I watched the pilot, and I think I would be more interested in a show about Kirsten's condition—without the stitching. Specifically, I was intrigued by the notion that when she is experiencing something, she cannot imagine a time when she has NOT been experiencing it.

All this talk of Asian Emma Stone had me subconsciuosly prepped for a joke like this. Well done!

"a peninsula of the dead," upvoted for

"Extermynate! Extermynate!"

Allison would be great at farm games. She and Donnie have experience making it rain.

I was impressed by his (not particularly evil) subterfuge regarding his "confession" that he would like drugs to be legalized, all so that the listeners would then reciprocate and confide in him about the data leak. I would bet he was even being genuine about the drugs, but the timing of the sharing was totally…

I was also repeatedly instructed "not to swallow it," in the same tones that an elder might warn you against sitting too close to the TV set.

We must be siblings.

My sense is that the show is playing the game of "When exactly did Sir Malcolm realize that Evelyn is dodgy." My best guess is that his suspicions were piqued when she stung him with the ring (the first time, at the restaurant), and that everything after that is *him* playing her rather than vice versa.

I suppose Tom could become an unseen president, and the season one running gag about the President not having called can be reinstated.

U.S. ambassador to Dallas, no less.